The Ottoman-Safavid Border and Rural Alevis' Electoral Behavior: A Geographic Discontinuity Analysis

• In Event: Identity Politics & Group-based Voting

Brief Overview

Exploiting the Ottomans' conquest of the Safavid territory and related sectarian pressure on the Alevi settlements in the region and employing a geographic regression discontinuity design, we aim to understand rural Alevis' electoral preferences.

Author

• Mert Moral, Sabanci University